Stagtime

12 hours ago, Ram-a-lama fa fa fa said:

like it. 

whos signatures are on there? 

Actually I only had it for around 10 minutes and my daughter took it home to be framed so haven’t had a good look at the signatures. Did notice Tom Lawrence on the side and Festy.

Santa has long gone from our shores and he left me this. Merry Christmas to all.

Sad news, always remember going to a local Chinese restaurant a few years ago and the cook always had The Specials on rotation every visit. 

They just don’t make them like that anymore ?, Mad Macca

Busy day for me tomorrow.

11 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Better still, Give Ivan Milat early parole ?

He died 3 years ago mate.

Stepping out threads for the Melbourne Cup luncheon.

Fox Sports over here a bit harsh ?

A few pictures of our stay at Cania Gorge. Off to my hometown of Mundubbera for a few days then Borumba Deer Farm.

14 hours ago, Boycie said:

Where’s the Barbie mate?

Using our mate’s behind us, we use the vans stove mostly.

On the road again, Cania Gorge National Park Central Queensland.

30 minutes ago, Boycie said:

I’ll have a stab at explaining, forgive my poor grammar. The 'flow temperature' is the temperature your boiler heats up the water to before sending it off to your radiators. Most gas boilers are set up to operate at what is called 80/60 flow and return temperatures. This means the boiler heats up the water (called ‘the flow’) to 80°C. The water returns to the boiler after travelling around all your radiators (called ‘the return’) at 60°C, having given off 20°C to the room.

However 80/60 flow and return temperatures are too high for a condensing gas boiler to achieve the A-rated efficiencies shown 'on-the-box'. It is a little know fact that modern boilers have a variable efficiency between A-E, in other words they are not A-rated out of the box. Studies have found most to be C-E-Rated in the home, equivalent to just 75-85% efficiency.

Your installer should have reduced the flow temperature to give the boiler a chance to run in what is known as 'condensing mode' as much as possible. This is when it can recover the heat that was previously lost through the flue on old style boilers.

At 70/50°C the boiler will start to operate in condensing mode. Only when the flow temperature is 60°C or lower will the boiler recover enough heat to reach its higher efficiency potential.

 

Who says sparkies can’t spell

Heating?, my air conditioner is set on 24c.?

We liked Bordeaux, mainly for the whole towns atmosphere at Christmas plus you could do a winery tour as well. Prague was good  but our favourite was Edinburgh’s markets then hit Rose Street afterwards.

The start of spring means Riverfire here, a month long festival.

EA-18 Growler on a practice run over the Story Bridge.

Riverfire overlooking Brisbane CBD.

1 hour ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Unless Austin signs for Derby I won't worry, unless there's some sadist on here who makes me go through with it.  

Playing for Brisbane Roar now.

2 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:

Like camping... but in a laboratory! ?

#ClinicalCamping  ?

 

Which reminds me... I must hoover my lawn before we go off proper camping in France in 10 days time!  ?

 

 

Enjoy.  ??

Going out bush for a couple of weeks in October, this place is on the water not too far from home.

Set up for the next 3 nights, Sandstone Point Qld.

Jaffa cakes, sorry Boycie.

13 minutes ago, DenmarkRam said:

Where do I start....... ?? ?

Do we really want to play this game ? ?

1 hour ago, Boycie said:

 Have journey times decreased to Aus? I thought they were about 23 hours? Or was that with change of flights somewhere?

Best I could do was 21 hrs Brisbane to London with Emirates or Singapore. The problem with Qantas is their main routes are Sydney and Melbourne meaning if you’re flying from Brisbane there’s a 5 to 6 hour wait for the connecting flight. Total flying time is 16 1/2 hrs to Perth and 4 1/2 hrs Perth to Brisbane. We’ve had big waits in London loading the commonwealth games bikes went an hour over and then another hour sitting in the plane waiting for a takeoff slot.

Arrived in Perth, not a bad flight considering it was 16 hours. Now a 4 hour wait before our Brisbane flight of 4 1/2 hours starts. Should be home around midnight. All up 32 hours since we left Soho☹️. We appreciate the comments and if you ever visit Brisbane get in contact. Already got a mob from Derby coming next year by the looks of it.

photo of our bus home.

Well, our time here has come to an end. Spent yesterday  on a nostalgic trip around West London were we lived in 2014. 

At Heathrow Qantas Club waiting for a 17 hour flight to Perth ?

And back to £6.40 pints, Carnaby St Soho.

View back at the Old Court Hotel built 1600 where we are staying.

Goodrich Castle.